NEX 1U Rackmount Server

Hey Guys! It’s Mike from The Geek Pub. And on this episode we’re going to build this bad ass 1U server! Now this video is not about building the biggest, baddest, and most redundant server we can build, rather this video is about building the biggest and baddest server that we cram in to a 1U case that is only 19” wide by 12” deep. It won’t come without its challenges, but in the end it is going to be worth the struggle and awesome! Now I plan to use this box as home network server running VMWare ESX, meaning I will have multiple virtual servers running on it all at once. This server will be actually be the second server in a pair of servers forming a redundant cluster. These two servers connect via iSCSI to a Synology RS2416+ to share a VMS storage volume contains the goes operating systems. This is awesome because it means if one server fails the other one immediately takes over. On t